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Theses Sabbaticæ, or, The doctrine of the Sabbath wherein the Sabbaths I. Morality, II.…
Theses Sabbaticæ, or, The doctrine of the Sabbath wherein the Sabbaths I. Morality, II. Change, III. Beginning. IV. Sanctification, are clearly discussed, which were first handled more largely in sundry sermons in Cambridge in New-England in opening of the Fourth Commandment : in unfolding whereof many scriptures are cleared, divers cases of conscience resolved, and the moral law as a rule of life to a believer, occasionally and distinctly handled / by Thomas Shepard ...Theses Sabbaticæ, or, The doctrine of the Sabbath wherein the Sabbaths I. Morality, II. Change, III. Beginning. IV. Sanctification, are clearly discussed, which were first handled more largely in sundry sermons in Cambridge in New-England in opening of the Fourth COmmandment : in unfolding whereof many scriptures are cleared, divers cases of conscience resolved, and the morall law as a rule of life to a believer, occasionally and distinctly handled / by Thomas Shepard ...
London: printed by T.R. and E.M. for John Rothwell, 1650
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Thesis 167.
There is not the least colour of Scripture to make this §167blessing and sanctifying of the day to be nothing else but Gods magnifying, and liking of it in his own mind, rejoicing and as it were glorying in it,1 when he had rested from his works, and yet M. Primrose casts this block in the way for the blind to stumble at, supposing that there should be no such Anticipation as he pleads for: for surely if God blessed and sanctified the day, it was a real and an effectual sanctification and blessing, but this magnifying and glorying in it, in Gods mind, is no real thing in the blessed God, he having no such affections in him, but what is said to be in him that way is ever by some special effects: the simple and pure essence of God admitting no affections, per modum affectus sed affectus, as is truly and commonly maintained.
There is not the least colour of Scripture to make this §167blessing and sanctifying of the day to be nothing else but Gods magnifying, and liking of it in his own mind, rejoycing and as it were glorying in it,1 when he had rested from his works, and yet M. Primrose casts this block in the way for the blind to stumble at, supposing that there should be no such Anticipation as he pleads for: for surely if God blessed and sanctified the day, it was a reall and an effectuall sanctification and blessing, but this magnifying and glorying in it, in Gods minde, is no reall thing in the blessed God, he having no such affections in him, but what is said to be in him that way is ever by some speciall effects: the simple and pure essence of God admitting no affections, per modum affectus sed affectus, as is truly and commonly maintained.